Category: This Month in Coal

Contura Energy updated its guidance for 2020, which decreased 700,000 tons for both metallurgical and thermal coal sales. Met shipments will range from 12 million tons to 12.6 million tons, from the previously announced guidance...

Peabody Energy announced its full-year 2019 revenues totaled $4.62 billion compared to $5.58 billion in the prior year, due to an 11% decline in production and lower pricing. The company posted a full-year 2019 loss of $188.3...

Indonesian state-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam is targeting around 30 million metric tons (mt) of coal production for 2020, according to Reuters. That’s a 1.5-million-mt increase over the company’s 2019 production. Bukit Asam...

Westmoreland Rosebud Mining announced the finalization of a new, six-year agreement to supply coal to Colstrip Generating Station’s Units 3 and 4 in December. The new agreement aligns with the needs of the regulated ownership...

Teck Resources Ltd. has expanded its commercial agreement with Ridley Terminals for shipping coal from Teck’s British Columbia operations. The agreement runs from January 2021 to December 2027, and increases contracted capacity...

By Gavin du Venage, South African Editor Some of the largest mining operations around South Africa have ground to a halt as the country once again undergoes rolling electricity blackouts. In late November, the country’s...

All the coal deposits of Poland’s Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa (JSW) have been mapped and stored in virtual 3D space. The company recently completed the project aimed at implementing a modern deposit management and production...

Arch Coal has discontinued longwall operations at its Mountain Laurel mine in Logan County, West Virginia, three months earlier than planned. The move is expected to reduce Arch’s fourth-quarter coking coal volumes by between...

Colombia’s El Cerrejón owned by BHP, Glencore and Anglo American will switch focus from Europe to Asia, in a move that would put it head to head with Australian coal exporters. El Cerrejón President Guillermo Fonseca urged the...

Australia Pacific Coal Ltd. said it will appeal a state regulator’s decision to not extend the life of an idled coal mine, as reported by Reuters. Australian Pacific, in its appeal, hopes to have the decision amended to extend...

The Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) said it continues to maintain the operations it purchased from Cloud Peak Energy (CPE) and expects to secure all necessary bonds to continue operations without any delays. The...

On October 29, Murray Energy and some of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio. According to its parent company, Murray Energy Holdings Co., it entered into a...